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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

...a sobering and frightening article from my friend, Susan Matthiesen -- Never forget the persecution by evil tyrants. They are still prowling the world today following the bidding of the master tyrant, Lucifer.Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

As Western intelligentsia and media elites continue to focus upon the fake and inflated refugee crisis among Palestinians, the world’s real refugee crisis, now described as the worst since World War II, is that of Syrian Christians and Yazidis persecuted by ISIS and migrating to Europe by the hundreds of thousands. The cause of this catastrophe is not difficult to grasp unless we rely on the mainstream media, not only today, but also yesterday; that is, the yesterday of 100 years ago.

I intend to download Edward Pentin's new book on my Kindle today and read it while I ride away to nowhere on my exercise bike.

Everything I've read about the book makes it sound like a real blockbuster. What a courageous son of the Church Edward Pentin is. Please pray for him. I'm sure the liberals progressives will be treating him like the plague at the Synod.

By the way, are you joining the novena for the Synod? My husband and I started the prayers last night, but it's never too late to begin. Our Lady of Victory, pray for us.

A novena to Our Lady of Victory for the Synod on the Family that starts next week begins today on the feast of the archangels. Lepanto Institute is urging all Catholics to join. Please pass this on to all your Catholic family and friends. This could not be more important in light of the attempts at "Rigging a Vatican Synod." Please don't ignore this plea. God used devotion to the Blessed Mother and the rosary to defeat the Turks at the battle of Lepanto on October 7th in 1571. Love for Our Lady always touches the heart of Christ. This spiritual battle is every bit as important as that physical naval battle. We are threatened by a new Protestant Revolt coming from the highest level of the Church. If you love your family, join the crusade to defend it. And ask the holy archangels whose feast is today and all the guardian angels of your family members to pray with you. As all holy things begin we start by making...the Sign of the Cross.

Indeed, even when speaking here to his own constituency – his fellow Successors of the Apostles – the Pope couldn’t bring himself to criticize the U.S. Supreme Court’s deplorable 5-4 decision of June 26th! All the Holy Father did was offer some very bland remarks of a more or less sociological nature. The Church, he said, cannot “disregard” the “unprecedented” social, cultural and juridical "changes" that are now having their “effects” (he doesn’t say bad effects) on “family bonds.” He added that since we Christians are not “immune” to social change, well, . . . we’ll just have to get used to this situation in which the sacramental and civil understandings of marriage are no longer as similar as they used to be. The only actual criticism the Pope voiced in this context was directed (yet again!) at social conservatives, not at the rising tide of homophile subversion, militancy and anti-Christian intolerance.

All along the pope has saved his harshest words for "me." I'm that "social conservative" who loves the Church, fights for the unborn and the vulnerable at any stage of life, urges people to reject contraception, encourages big families and home schooling, and debunks the unscientific knee bending at the altars of evolution and climate change.

So where are we going? Only time will tell, but Father's article is a sobering note. Pray for the Synod starting next Sunday and for all the bishops participating that the Holy Spirit will not be overshadowed by the spirit of the age which is decidedly unholy.

Monday, September 28, 2015

Brady is pro-choice and voted against President Bush’s restrictions on funding to family planning groups in 2001. Over the years, he has supported minors’ abortion rights, voting in 2005 for the right for those under 18 years of age to obtain abortions across state lines without parental consent.[5] He voted against the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, which prohibits health insurance companies from offering abortion coverage in a plan to any citizen. He opposed a proposal to prohibit federally funded abortion services.[6] Over the past fifteen years, organizations such as the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL), the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, and Planned Parenthood rated him 100%.[7]

Michael Hichborn at the Lepanto Institute is getting the mailed fist in the face for exposing the little wigglies under the bishops' rock over the World Meeting of Families. (Somehow, I don't think that's the rock of the Church Jesus was talking about when he said, "Thou art Peter.") But the homosexual network doesn't just work in Philly. The Archdiocese of New York and Cardinal Dolan had their own homosexual scandal associated with the pope's visit when they let an out and proud (and well-known) homosexual reporter and comedian lector at the papal Mass at Madison Square Garden. Somebody has some serious 'splainin' to do. Cardinal Dolan?

Who exactly recommended and approved this man? Rocca is a reporter and comic. How many people knew exactly how out and proud the lector was? Huffpo was gushing about his participation. No, folks, it was no accident. It was just as deliberate as selecting a woman to play Jesus in the Stations of the Cross when Pope John Paul II came to the U.S. We have an agenda going on at the highest levels of the Church with bishops who have about as much love for Christ and his
flock as Hillary Clinton does for pro-life activists.

Saturday, September 26, 2015

If this is true, we are in bigger trouble than I thought. Read more about Danneels here. He favors abortion, same-sex marriage, and the Belgian Church did less than nothing to put impediments in the government's actions to advance assisted suicide and other legislation against life. The group is insisting now that they were NOT a lobby group. Cardinals may not "lobby" for a pope during a conclave. Apparently, it is not unusual before the conclave begins.

Friday, September 25, 2015

Can't say I'm sorry to see him go, hankie and all. For a majority party to go along with all the evils of the minority and a president who can only be described as diabolically committed to killing the innocent has been not only disappointing, but unintelligible. I wish the man well, but will wave him off without a tear. I will also pray that this decision indicates a concern for some of his more irresponsible failures to stand up for the lives of the innocent. It will be interesting to see what he does next.

A friend of mine wrote this on his Facebook page after the pope's speech to Congress this morning.

"About 145 babies were aborted during this speech to congress. I'm not sure how many criminals were put to death during that time but I'm guessing it was quite a bit fewer. Just saying."

It got me thinking. How enlightening would it be to go through the speech with a pen and paper and timer and write down how much time was given to each subject? I only heard one sentence about defending life from beginning to end and very little on the family that couldn't be interpreted as applying to the new definition of family in all its diverse forms. There was a lot more, as my friend points out, on capital punishment and, of course, on social justice whatever you think that means.

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

When Pope John Paul II visited America in 1993 for World Youth Day, he spoke about life. He reminded us of his 1987 visit when he said:

If you want equal justice for all, and true freedom and lasting peace, then America, defend life! All the great causes that are yours today will have meaning only to the extent that you guarantee the right to life and protect the human person.

Bill and Hillary Clinton sat with tight lips listening to him squirming for the whole world to see. Pope John Paul II confronted the world as a sign of contradiction.

What about Pope Francis this morning? (See the video here.) Did the most diabolical president in our history squirm?

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Hillary Clinton Supports Unlimited Abortions Up to Birth, No Limits Even in the 9th MonthIs anyone really surprised that Hillary Clinton supports killing babies any time before birth (and perhaps after). Hillary resembles all the tyrants of history who had no problem killing millions of BORN people for political expediency. The Clintons have shown themselves to be completely without honor or moral compunction. The rules don't apply to them because THEY are the special ones. Cheating on your spouse is no problem because the normal rules of conduct don't apply to you. Killing your political enemies is just being pragmatic. Get them before they get you. Besides, you're one of the enlightened ones, the leaders, who can't be expected to follow the rules of the peasants.

And that's the Clintons in spades. Bill and Hillary's child and grandchild are worth something (only because they weren't handicapped). But others have the value the Clinton's apply to them. How useful are they? Can they help you get ahead or will they hold you back and hinder your agenda. Hillary would change her position on a woman's right to choose in one second if it would help her political prospects.

Sometimes I think Hillary is Margaret Sanger reincarnated. She has the same cold, calculating nature as that diabolical mother of our modern, murderous civilization. So, while Hillary brags about communicating with Eleanor Roosevelt, her real soul mate is death peddling monster Margaret Sanger. I'm praying for both of them today, but I have to admit, I'm doing it with gritted teeth.

Monday, September 21, 2015

Will you drop everything, leave whatever you're doing, and follow Him? Today is the feast of St. Matthew, the tax collector, despised by the religious leaders of his day. And yet, the Savior saw something the Pharisees and religious leaders did not. He called Matthew in the midst of his money counting. How many sinners are called in the midst of their sins? Will you be the hand of Jesus echoing His call to follow Him? Are you following Him yourself? How far behind are you? Run up closer so you can reach out and touch His cloak and be healed.

And pray for poor sinners. Have you ever considered going to an extra Mass on Sunday in atonement for those who stay home? Just think how the inestimable graces of one Mass can pour out on a parched heart. Imagine it swelling with love like a dry sponge swelling up with water. We can renew the face of the earth by our prayers and sacrifices. Let's do something today for all the Matthews in the world who are just waiting to be transformed by Christ.

Sunday, September 20, 2015

I'm reading a short booklet titled The Spirituality of the Little Shepherds Francisco and Jacinta Marto by Fr. Louis Kondor SVD. This morning I read this powerful passage:

Besides the charity which goes out to meet the bodily necessities, there is that which seeks to repair the life of the soul. It is relatively easy to be moved by the necessities o the body. Even without faith, simply through philanthropic motives, well-doing can be pursued.

But if we are moved by the lot of those who live in sin, of those who are in danger of losing their souls forever, that is the most sublime charity, the fruit of the gift of Understanding that penetrates into the mystery of sin.

The light of God shone into the souls of these little children of Fatima, the gift of Understanding made them understand the danger of sin, and led them to embrace a heroic life of mortification, to deliver the sinners from falling into Hell.

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Her respect for her tiny, very sick patients is so, so evident. Let us all have a heart for God's little ones whether they are sick babies in the womb or the vulnerable elderly becoming like little children in their old age. The sick babies Dr. Parravicini treats are precious in God's sight. The reason for their short lives is a mystery, she says, but they "show the beauty and the truth of God. They change the heart of the entire delivery room." Watch this and pray for this beautiful doctor and the families she serves.

This has been a summer of funerals. Today was our fourth in just a few short months. What was particularly memorable at today's funeral was one son's wonderful "memorial" to his father near the end of Mass. It wasn't the typical eulogy about all the great things Dad accomplished. He gave a very brief testimonial of how his Dad's faith and fidelity brought him back to the Church. He called himself a "prodigal son" but testified to his dad's never wavering in the faith. I couldn't help noticing at Communion that only about half the family went up to receive. Later I was talking to someone who said the mom told him her husband offered all his suffering that his children would return to the faith. I felt like that son's testimonial was a spark that might reignite the flame of faith in some of his relatives.

Thursday, September 17, 2015

I received this email today from the Center for Medical Progress. Let's try to get this message to go viral. Planned Parenthood must not be allowed to get away with the murder of the unborn and their illegal profiteering on the sale of baby body parts. Let's keep talking about this, keep posting it, and keep bringing it up. Don't let the PP shills in the mainstream press succeed in freezing out information on the death dealing giant.

Dear friends,

Please forgive the generic nature of this message. However I have just learned that many people throughout the nation (over 60%) have not heard of or even seen the outrageous Planned Parenthood videos detailing the sale of human body parts and the violations of federal law.

The mainstream media has put out a blackout on the story and there have been no reports for over a month despite the 10 video releases showing the appalling behavior of Planned Parenthood executives. The latest release was this week.

Many people think that this one billion dollar abortion organization should receive no federal tax dollars.

However the media is already spiking the story claiming that Planned Parenthood has done no wrong.

This purpose of this email is simple.

If you have not seen the videos, please take the time to watch them. They are pretty horrific. They are very uncomfortable to watch. Click any of the links below.

Planned Parenthood is counting on the blackout to run out the clock. So is the media. We cannot let that happen.

Pass this on to everyone in your email list. Please do not let the media control the truth of what is happening.

It can make you smarter: "cursive writing has been shown to improve left-right brain synergy and even promote the brain's language and memory functions."

Not only that, but it's beautiful. I like writing on a keyboard. I can probably think and write more quickly on my computer than on a legal pad. But I wouldn't even consider typing a thank you or sympathy note and every card I write (including the several hundred Christmas cards I send) gets a personal note. If your children aren't learning cursive in school teach them at home. One of Ghandi's big regrets (He describes it in his autobiography) was never developing beautiful handwriting.

Keep cursive alive. Send a letter or card with a note in cursive today (unless you are writing to a first or second grade student).

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

A friend sent me an email earlier today saying she'd seen a sign in a local coffee shop in Berryville advertising a "death cafe." Yes, you read that right. It's the latest thing. Get together over coffee and cake and talk about death. One promoter of these events says she's "passionate about death."

The founder of the Death Cafe, Bernard Crettaz, organized the first one in 2004. He wanted to remove what he described as the "tyrannical silence" around the topic of death. Crettaz also wanted to renew the pagan tradition of the "funeral feast" in which "the living would renew their bonds while letting go of what weighed on their hearts." The tradition of the funeral feast has some bizarre elements and in some cultures includes animal sacrifice and practices to prevent the spirit of the dead from haunting the living.

These women mark the demise of abortion. As more and more survivors speak out, hearts will be changed. How can anyone tell these two women, their mothers had the right to kill them, that the abortionist hit men had the right to kill them. No wonder we have become such a violent society. It isn't the fault of guns or knives, it's poisonous hearts. Pray and work for an end to abortion.

As most Catholics must know, the family is under attack in unprecedented ways today. Not only does the attack come from enemies outside the Church, but heretics within continuously "nail their theses" in public places. Walking in the footsteps of Martin Luther, Msgr. Paul Garrity challenges Church teaching on the indissolubility of marriage. Read the Lepanto Institute's open letter to Cardinal O'Malley requesting him to correct this false shepherd and sign the petition. While the shepherds fail to do their duty, souls are being lost. Please take action today.

Sunday, September 13, 2015

Yes, homosexual behavior is dangerous. Ask some of the survivors who have watched close friends die from AIDS, Syphilis, and other horrible diseases. Talk to those who have suffered through reconstructive surgery to repair bowels damaged by repeated anal sex.

Saturday, September 12, 2015

Watch this important video. It points out how important the upcoming synod is. Many mystics predicted the assault on the family and this synod, if it undermines the indissolubility of marriage, will be promoting heresy. Watch this and pray. Pray especially for the brave bishops of the Church who are not fleeing from the wolves but facing them down. Note the discussion of the manipulation of language -- "new pastoral care" to affirm homosexuality and Communion for those in invalid marriages is compared to the distortion of Vatican II by alluding to the "spirit of the council." Bishop Schneider calls them "false words" and specifically identifies the strategies of Cardinal Kasper as "a lie."

Friday, September 11, 2015

And they aborted the child in such a way as to delay her death so they could get healthy organs for developing vaccines. It's enough to make you vomit thinking of the agony of this little girl and the medical cannibals who consumed her body in their research. Read this bit from the article:

The new cell line, Walvax-2, was developed from lung tissues taken from a female baby. Doctors who developed the line say that the abortion was performed using special methods to delay the death of the baby, so that the organs would be healthy and available for harvesting.

Debi Vinnedge of Children of God for Life, a vaccine watchdog groups, points out that those who want mandatory vaccination say no new abortions will be necessary since existing stem lines can be used. This research proves that's simply not true.

Check where your children's vaccines are coming from. There is evidence that vaccines produced from aborted babies are linked to autism, lymphoma, and leukemia. The evidence is pretty compelling. Read this testimony of Dr. Theresa Deisher. Using aborted babies in vaccines is bad medicine as well as grossly immoral. You cannot kill one person in order to help another.

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

The hero's journey is one of the major themes in literature. And as I've been rereading The Hobbit this week and seeing all the crises and difficulties Bilbo experiences, it made me think of my own journey. Many of Bilbo's adventures involve facing evil: evil trolls, goblins, Gollum (who made himself evil by his wicked choices), the wolves, and Smaug. He also experiences the help of friends who bring warmth and comfort to an otherwise dreary quest. And then there are the plodding times through the Mirkwood when all is dark and depressing, perhaps the worst evil of all -- the temptation to despair.

Isn't that a lot like life? We face evil and continuously have to fight it. The temptations to do wrong, the petty meanness so easy to fall into, the temptations to discouragement. "Just give up; it's too hard and who cares anyway?" That's when we need to look up and see the light and remember we are never alone and help is always close at hand.

What is your journey like today? Whatever it is, don't walk alone. Be aware of the spiritual twin walking with you, your guardian angel, who is so eager to help you. Look for ways that you can be a comfort to those around you. Somehow, in encouraging others, our own journey becomes easier. Have a blessed day. You are the hero on the most important journey of all -- life in Christ. Let us pray to be transformed so we can be a guide to others on the journey.

On January 4, 2011, the Obama administration withdrew the EOL
portion of the new regulation, just 10 days after the NY Times article. The
story had captured the news over the holidays.

Since then the Big Death lobby, a.k.a. the Third Path
Movement, has been patiently at work getting ready to come at this problem
again!

A "Notice and Comment Rulemaking" period is currently under
way with a deadline of September 8, 2015, 5pm Eastern. After that deadline next
Tuesday, an important change in how medicine will be practiced will take place
unless CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) receives serious
negative comments from the general public.

Here is what has happened. Please continue to read. This is
important!!

Two new CPT Codes
(Current Procedural Terminology Codes, registered trademard of the American
Medical Association) can be used by healthcare professionals starting Jan 1,
2016 to record Advance Care Planning Services and apply for reimbursement from
the federal government for these "services."

These Advance Care
Planning talks will record wishes pertaining to medical treatment and record
them in an advance care document such as 1) healthcare proxy, 2) healthcare
power of attorney, 3) living will and 4) POLST/MOST/POST/MOLST form. (You know,
the POLST form that become doctor's orders!)

These codes are 99497
for the first 30 minutes of advance care planning discussion and form completion
with the patient by the physician or other qualified health professional, and
99498 for any additional minutes spent with the patient for that
purpose.

PLEASE, take a moment right now to tell the federal
government that you oppose this regulatory change. (See the list of suggested points which you could make,
below)

You can submit comments
electronically, by regular mail, or by express or overnight mail. Use only one
method. Please comment
IMMEDIATELY.

One of my readers posted a comment on my last article linking to a wonderful blog with an amazing homily by the pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville, SC, Fr. Jay Scott Newman. (Thanks, Alan!) Father makes the point that, rather than bewailing the collapse of the culture, we should welcome it as an opportunity. An honest view of the culture makes it clear that it is more neo-pagan with a Christian veneer. But the "victory" of the sexual revolution exhibited by the recent enshrinement of same-sex "marriage" by the Supreme Court offers tremendous evangelical possibilities. Here are a few of the points Father makes:

[T]he legal dispute over same sex marriage in the United States has now been decided, and in that contest the traditional Christian understanding of marriage lost. What you may be surprised to learn is that I welcome this defeat, and I want to explain why...

Saturday, September 5, 2015

The treatment of Kentucky county
clerk Kim Davis who refused to issue a same sex marriage license is a warning to Christians. Like the canaries in the coal mines who let miners know when the air was getting impossible to breathe, the jailing of Kim Davis for refusing to bend to a federal judge's demand indicates exactly where this is going. Like the poisoned air in the mine threatening the life of the miners, the cultural air is poisonous for Christians. They will not be tolerated when they stand up for the natural law or listen to the voice of the people. Kentucky voters rejected same-sex marriage in 2004, but liberal judges have been making law for years. Who cares what the voters want, the bigots in black robes will make the rules even when they overturn thousands of years of moral rule. So despite the fact that the state constitution of Kentucky says marriage is between a man and a woman, Davis must bow to the liberal tyrant judge. When she wouldn't, she was jailed for contempt. But the real contempt is on the part of the judge for the Judeo-Christian ethic.

What is the reality here? Kim Davis engaged in a courageous act of civil disobedience against a mad judiciary. Suppose you were a government employee who lived in Germany in 1939 and you received an order to arrest Jews and load them on cattle cars heading for concentration camps. Would you comply? Suppose you were a doctor ordered to carry out the euthanasia laws against the handicapped. Would you participate in gassing the innocent?

Homosexuals have framed the debate as one of civil rights equal to discrimination against blacks. It's a diabolical lie. Blacks suffered because of the color of their skin, a genetic trait. Homosexuals want special privileges based on their BEHAVIOR, i.e., same-sex sodomy.

But the fact is that "gays" don't really want marriage at all. In a recent article in The Nation, four authors outline an agenda that includes disestablishing marriage altogether. What they appear to want is for all things to be viewed through a "gay" lens: relationships, economic factors, health care, work, social issues -- all must be seen according to the LGBTQ vision. The authors promote the "progressive" left and call for crushing the right. No one may dissent from their viewpoint. Christians will bend to the beast or be fed to the lions.

Like I said, the treatment of Kim Davis is the canary in the mine. The Christians in this country will either join together to fight, or they will "hang" separately.

You can help get Sanger off her pedestal and into the trash can of history with other evil tyrants. Sanger and her cronies did more to establish the culture of death in America than almost any other modern figure. She considered minorities, Jews, Catholics, the "feeble-minded," etc. as "human weeds," and she did whatever she could to help exterminate them. While publicly pretending to be against abortion, she actually gave women advice on how to bring their period if they missed it. Read her pamphlet on Family Limitation. She gave an interview in 1947 calling for a moratorium on women having babies. Sanger was a selfish, power-mad narcissist.

Help get her bust out of the Smithsonian. Media Research Center is urging citizens to call the Smithsonian and courteously demand the removal of the bust from the taxpayer funded museum. If they need a place to put it suggest the Holocaust Museum. She was a big fan of Adolf Hitler.

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

All McConnell cares about is his seat and his little fiefdom. He doesn't give a hoot about the country as long as he can keep the taxpayer dollars flowing into his pocket and enjoy the perks and privileges of being among America's aristocrats. Here's a little from the article about McConnell's betrayal:

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Very good analogy. Why is it okay to abuse someone because of his size or place of residence? Is a baby in the womb really less worthy of protection than a baby five minutes after birth? Think about it. Planned Parenthood is guilty of the ultimate child abuse. They don't just beat up little ones, they rip them limb from limb. Anyone who justifies that is guilty of enabling abuse.

CMP releases video number 9 - How Cavalier the death peddlers are talking about killing and collecting baby body parts. How is this any different from experimentation by Nazi doctors? There isn't any except the size of the victims. Listen to the language. "The doctor makes sure that the termination is complete." Final solution for that little baby, eh?

Omigosh, what will Church Militant TV do with this? The SSPX perhaps aren't as demonic as formerly thought. Read the entire post and the comments at Fr. Z's blog and take to heart his admonition to go to Confession.

Let's pray in the Year of Mercy that we see the complete reconciliation of the SSPX. We need their fidelity and zeal to help renew the face of the earth!

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